somehow or other Copy link Outline 1. ălĭquā (sc. viā, by some road or other)2. nescio quōmodo (lit., I know not how)3. nescio quo pacto (like the preced.) • somehow or other: 1. ălĭquā (sc. viā, by some road or other): to escape s. or other, if he could, a. evolare, si posset, Cic. Verr. 1, 26, 67: if you had not done a mischief s. or other, you would have died, si non a. nocuisses, mortuus esses, Virg. E. 3, 15. 2. nescio quōmodo (lit., I know not how): good men are s. or other too sluggish, boni nescio quomodo tardiores sunt, Cic. Sest. 47, 100. 3. nescio quo pacto (like the preced.): s. or other it is always the case, nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit, id. Mur. 21, 43: others s. or other have become hardened, alii nescio quo pacto obduruerunt, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 2. (N.B.--Such phrases as nescio quomodo, nescio quo pacto, are to be regarded as a single adverbial expression, and hence the indic.)